Use of forward genetic screens to identify genes required for RNA-directed DNA methylation in arabidopsis thaliana

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 77, Issue , 2012, Pages 195-204

  Eun, C ^a   Lorkovic, Z J ^a   Sasaki, T ^a   Naumann, U ^a   Matzke, A J M ^a   Matzke, M ^a  

^a GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; NRPE5 PROTEIN; NRPE9B PROTEIN; PLANT PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; RNA NOSPRO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; INVERTED REPEAT; MERISTEM; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEOMICS; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE GENETICS; RNA GENE; SEEDLING; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DMS12 GENE; DMS13 GENE; DMS4 GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA DIRECTED DNA METHYLATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC TESTING; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 84881499798     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2012.77.015099     Document Type: Article

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